Body and frame paint

You should do it yourself...minimal investment is a $100 pot blaster and a compressor, mine is 18CFM @ 90...sandblasting the most fun you can have with your clothes on.

 

What about air lines and all that jazz?

 

And again with your cloths off trying to figure out how the f did sand get there? Lol

 

Sandblasting is ok if want to remove all rust and old paint , but can damage electric and air lines along the frame . I prepped the frame washing it well before paining with an air needle scaler and sander and paint it with POR 15, great stuff, for 3 years already i don't have rusty spots. But i spray it every year before winter and salty roads with few cans of Krown oil .

 

Possibly soda,,did not go over well in my area buy likely more common in larger centers. Many are using water and sand under high pressure,,,fast and no dust.
UTECH expoxy primer is extremely durable,I consider POR 15 overpriced marketing of a high solids epoxy, not even in the league of premium products.

 

Lesco Industrial in Oshawa ON quoted me about $1800 to do the frame on the W Star, that did not include removing anything like fuel tanks, just the frame that they could see and get to easily, and that quote was from 2019, I'm sure the rate has gone up. They have a website if you want to check them out.

 

Without stripping the frame the paint is only for vanity,,,who knows what lurks behind all the brackets etc. If not stripping the frame might as well just steam clean and squirt epoxy primer. Kirker TM is cheap and has a medium gloss finish and very durable.